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General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Title:Black Hole Spectrum: Continuous or Discrete?

Abstract: We formulate a qualitative argument, based on Heisenberg's uncertainty
principle, to support the claim that when the effects of matter fields are
assumed to overshadow the effects of quantum mechanics of spacetime, the
discrete spectrum of black hole radiation, as such as predicted by Bekenstein's
proposal for a discrete black hole area spectrum, reduces to Hawking's
black-body spectrum.